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no_hypocrisy

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Wed Nov 5, 2025, 08:47 AM Nov 5

Federal Election Monitors in Passaic County, NJ [View all]

Just to refresh your memories, I'm a poll worker in a small town in Passaic County, NJ. New Jersey Republicans asked Pam Bondi's DOJ to send "monitors" to our county, and only our county, as unfounded suspicions of shenanigans were circulated.

I was too whipped last night after being a poll worker for 15+ hours to give you an update, so here it is:

No monitors in my town. Not in the polling places. Not 100 feet away on the sidewalks. We had a steady stream of voters from the town: Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans, Muslims, etc. And everyone had a chance to vote.

And no monitors in the county seat where the Board of Elections is located. Meaning if there were any monitors, they didn't interfere or disrupt the official counting of mail-in ballots and provisional ballots and the voting tabulations on the machines.

If anything, it was entirely anticlimactic. Not that I'm complaining. We were expecting ICE to be on the sidewalks with the monitors, detaining and arresting our resident voters. But it didn't happen.

What happened in California where the DOJ elections monitors were also sent?

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